320 Quotes by William Golding

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.

I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builders who conceived the build of the boat in their mind and after that touched every single piece that went into the boat.

And dying is more natural than living, because what could be more unnatural than that panicstricken thing leaping and falling like a last flame beneath the ribs?

Las ideas más brillantes son siempre las más sencillas.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

Life itself is a rickety building

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.